[lowbuck]

Bingo. Google and Yahoo are successful because they fill a need that people everywhere want and advertisers are willing to pay to get in on the action (among other sources of income).

Launching a state sponsored search engine would be sort of like NASA. Sure we can get to the moon and back, but at what cost, and will the public every fund us beyond what we can get in their tax money?

FROOGLE. . .. PRICELESS!!!!!

[sd-joe]

Google already has a "Froogle" service (a shopping service). But "Froggle", that is clearly French.